An hour might be a little short for a movie theater, but just right for truck-stop fare. Surely someone who can afford a Tesla could also afford to spend some time browsing a "bookstore" or getting a "massage" or watching a "dance" performance.
If coding was my primary job duty, sure, I could see this kind of art being pretty relevant. But even though I have an IT background, and some coding-related books sitting around, working at a large, modern telescope in a major observatory complex, my geekdom is more about space science, so the art on the walls (and my laptop's wallpaper) tends to be more along the lines of either stuff out in space, or stuff that looks at stuff out in space. For example, my current wallpaper.
Almost. This guy knows how to use R, and has a friend who keeps track of where he flies (and who really needs to get out of Europe more often). I use openflights as well (500+ flights so far), and it has some nifty little analytical/"top 10" features (4 of my top 10 airlines no longer exist?)
Thanks for the compliment. I should note that this approach doesn't in any way mean to not do the other approaches. By all means, take reasonable steps to acquire domains that are being used in bad faith, and to take down any content that actually violates copyright or privacy or whatever. And look into whether laws about online harassment or "cyberstalking" might apply.
And of course, if the ex responds to the dilution/obfuscation of the name by adding personal information to make it clearer exactly which person by that name he's referring to, harassment or "cyberstalking" are more likely to apply.
CDE never did anything unexpected - as long as you were expecting the mouse cursor to randomly become invisible, which keeps happening on one or two of the SPARCs where I work.
To be fair, after it did that a few times, we did expect it, I guess.
Long ago and far away, a Google for my real name turned up about ten pages of results that were me, before getting around to anything that wasn't. Of course, those pages dealt with different bits of me, so there could still have been some confusion over whether they meant the technologist with my name, or the writer with my name, or the music journalist with my name, or the photographer with my name, or the foreign-affairs sort with my name - never mind that they were all the same person.
In the last few years, Google has managed to find people with the same name who aren't actually me, so there's a brain surgeon, a rugby player, and a soccer player, as well as a bunch of youthful sorts half a world away. At the same time, I've been a little more careful about the "make this visible to search engines" boxes on sites. So now, Googling my name finds a variety of people, most of whom aren't me.
I would suggest that the OP and his fiancée create five or ten online identities with the same name that her ex refers to, with details that don't match her real identity, but do match (or at least are ambiguous about matching) things her ex is saying. Give people reason to stop and doubt whether the person being badmouthed is that one, or some other one.
Does the basics (but don't look for serious application software for it soon, if ever), is as cheap as an old netbook was, and by being largely cloud-based, is probably "safer" in a lot of ways - not just malware, but the potential for corporations or institutions to remotely configure, update and "manage" (control) what their users can access.
Yeah, but you just know as soon as you buy your share, whatever you bought the share in is going to have a sucky year. Right, anyone else who bought a share of the Packers last time they were offered?
And in the case of cinema, no matter how creative your financing model is, you're still stuck trying to sell whatever the studios churn out - which means you're in trouble. What if the good people of your town aren't compelled by next year's selection of remakes, sequels in franchises that should have died long ago, and Uwe Boll projects?
Pre-dates movies entirely - back in the colonial days, the educated townfolk would get together and form a "Library Company," each contributing some funds (a subscription, if you will) and typically some books from their own collection. I used to hang around the seventh-oldest library in the US, fun place. Eventually, people figured out that it was best to give everyone in town access to this sort of thing, funded by taxes, so we now have public libraries. But I'm not sure whether people would go for a tax-funded public town cinema...;)
The average user doesn't program shit. They want to play their youtube videos and facebook. I don't have first hand experience, but I read that the early/mid atoms had problems with HD video.
Yeah, my wife's Toshiba NB100 had a 1.6GHz Atom that sucked at YouTube - even non-HD. Opening lots of tabs in a browser was also a very, very bad idea.
Airlines are (and have been, and will continue to be) giving preferential treatment to their better customers. How this is even news, I don't know - frequent flyer programs have been around for what, thirty years now? And you don't have to fly to see all the advertising about how getting the airline's affinity credit card saves you from paying for that first checked bag every time you fly with them, and so on, and so forth. Flying 25,000 miles a year with them gets you that too, plus bonus miles, plus free upgrades when available, and the perks only go up from there.
Earlier this millennium, I spent a few years as a top-tier frequent flyer on an airline that has since merged into one of the remaining behemoths. I was in my 30's at the time, and had some "work" that involved a lot of international flights. (Thanks for paying your taxes, if you live in any of the twenty-odd countries whose governments were funding it.) It was even worthwhile for me to buy a membership in their lounges. Their back-end system had a formula for determining "high-value customers," and based partly on how many years I was expected to be their customer before retiring, it decided they were going to make some bucks off me, even though I always flew on the cheapest available fares.
The airline that borged them didn't have this generous of a nature, but said "wow, look at this great data-mining system!" and adopted it, not fully understanding what they were getting. A year or so after the merger, I used some miles for a free, non-upgradable ticket to meet up with my fiancée in Paris for a weekend. I got to the hub airport for the trans-Atlantic flight to Paris, the gate agent paged me, looked me up and down (yeah, t-shirt and sandals), asked if I was in fact me, looked more than a little distressed, then dragged me off to the side away from the counter and said in hushed tones, "We're not allowed to do this - but the computer says to upgrade you!"
As far as I know, this airline's computer still thinks I am a god among men, and unless they deliberately go in and tweak the algorithms, it may think that forever. I'm... okay with this.:)
Curiosity is great. My daughter was 10 months old when she got hold of her mom's phone and "checked in" on Facebook "from" a restaurant near our house. Her message of "Tvab un vcchhccbgvb. B. By yhd7(7," was a little out of the ordinary for my wife's wall, but it still drew a few likes and several comments.;)
"when the grid fails" is often not a nice sunny day, you know.:)
So the "wiring" needs to include storage, i.e. batteries. Which means it's probably a good thing that the Department of Energy is starting a big project to research breakthroughs in battery technology...
If you're talking about simple, crudely aimed fireworks, perhaps. If you're talking about actual steerable rockets, Robert Goddard appears to have been driven more by interest in flight and spaceflight (and the innate curiosity of a scientist and inventor) than by the prospect of weaponizing his creations.
The build process on OS X is just different enough from Linux to be a real bugbear when I try to compile some obscure console-mode app (naim, for example), usually making osxports puke its guts out on the next-to-last of a hundred dependencies. It'd be pretty nice if I could just download binaries built for Linux and use them.
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An hour might be a little short for a movie theater, but just right for truck-stop fare. Surely someone who can afford a Tesla could also afford to spend some time browsing a "bookstore" or getting a "massage" or watching a "dance" performance.
What's his handle on there? Didn't spot anything containing pater or kasting.
I presume they're busy flashing. (Since when do asteroids flash?)
I can't say hundreds, but yeah, I've flashed a bunch of stuff without bricking. Most of it was Apple kit, though.
I did not know that. I thought you needed a Superb Owl to do that.
"Taltos" by Anne Rice, wasn't it?
Oh, and if it's supposed to be 'Real World,' the servers shouldn't be running Windows. ;)
Oh, if only science were elevated to Department status, with a cabinet-level secretary!
I think you mean Department of Energy, Office of Science.
If coding was my primary job duty, sure, I could see this kind of art being pretty relevant. But even though I have an IT background, and some coding-related books sitting around, working at a large, modern telescope in a major observatory complex, my geekdom is more about space science, so the art on the walls (and my laptop's wallpaper) tends to be more along the lines of either stuff out in space, or stuff that looks at stuff out in space. For example, my current wallpaper.
Almost. This guy knows how to use R, and has a friend who keeps track of where he flies (and who really needs to get out of Europe more often). I use openflights as well (500+ flights so far), and it has some nifty little analytical/"top 10" features (4 of my top 10 airlines no longer exist?)
Thanks for the compliment. I should note that this approach doesn't in any way mean to not do the other approaches. By all means, take reasonable steps to acquire domains that are being used in bad faith, and to take down any content that actually violates copyright or privacy or whatever. And look into whether laws about online harassment or "cyberstalking" might apply.
And of course, if the ex responds to the dilution/obfuscation of the name by adding personal information to make it clearer exactly which person by that name he's referring to, harassment or "cyberstalking" are more likely to apply.
CDE never did anything unexpected - as long as you were expecting the mouse cursor to randomly become invisible, which keeps happening on one or two of the SPARCs where I work.
To be fair, after it did that a few times, we did expect it, I guess.
Long ago and far away, a Google for my real name turned up about ten pages of results that were me, before getting around to anything that wasn't. Of course, those pages dealt with different bits of me, so there could still have been some confusion over whether they meant the technologist with my name, or the writer with my name, or the music journalist with my name, or the photographer with my name, or the foreign-affairs sort with my name - never mind that they were all the same person.
In the last few years, Google has managed to find people with the same name who aren't actually me, so there's a brain surgeon, a rugby player, and a soccer player, as well as a bunch of youthful sorts half a world away. At the same time, I've been a little more careful about the "make this visible to search engines" boxes on sites. So now, Googling my name finds a variety of people, most of whom aren't me.
I would suggest that the OP and his fiancée create five or ten online identities with the same name that her ex refers to, with details that don't match her real identity, but do match (or at least are ambiguous about matching) things her ex is saying. Give people reason to stop and doubt whether the person being badmouthed is that one, or some other one.
Does the basics (but don't look for serious application software for it soon, if ever), is as cheap as an old netbook was, and by being largely cloud-based, is probably "safer" in a lot of ways - not just malware, but the potential for corporations or institutions to remotely configure, update and "manage" (control) what their users can access.
Yeah, but you just know as soon as you buy your share, whatever you bought the share in is going to have a sucky year. Right, anyone else who bought a share of the Packers last time they were offered?
And in the case of cinema, no matter how creative your financing model is, you're still stuck trying to sell whatever the studios churn out - which means you're in trouble. What if the good people of your town aren't compelled by next year's selection of remakes, sequels in franchises that should have died long ago, and Uwe Boll projects?
Pre-dates movies entirely - back in the colonial days, the educated townfolk would get together and form a "Library Company," each contributing some funds (a subscription, if you will) and typically some books from their own collection. I used to hang around the seventh-oldest library in the US, fun place. Eventually, people figured out that it was best to give everyone in town access to this sort of thing, funded by taxes, so we now have public libraries. But I'm not sure whether people would go for a tax-funded public town cinema... ;)
The average user doesn't program shit. They want to play their youtube videos and facebook. I don't have first hand experience, but I read that the early/mid atoms had problems with HD video.
Yeah, my wife's Toshiba NB100 had a 1.6GHz Atom that sucked at YouTube - even non-HD. Opening lots of tabs in a browser was also a very, very bad idea.
Airlines are (and have been, and will continue to be) giving preferential treatment to their better customers. How this is even news, I don't know - frequent flyer programs have been around for what, thirty years now? And you don't have to fly to see all the advertising about how getting the airline's affinity credit card saves you from paying for that first checked bag every time you fly with them, and so on, and so forth. Flying 25,000 miles a year with them gets you that too, plus bonus miles, plus free upgrades when available, and the perks only go up from there.
Earlier this millennium, I spent a few years as a top-tier frequent flyer on an airline that has since merged into one of the remaining behemoths. I was in my 30's at the time, and had some "work" that involved a lot of international flights. (Thanks for paying your taxes, if you live in any of the twenty-odd countries whose governments were funding it.) It was even worthwhile for me to buy a membership in their lounges. Their back-end system had a formula for determining "high-value customers," and based partly on how many years I was expected to be their customer before retiring, it decided they were going to make some bucks off me, even though I always flew on the cheapest available fares.
The airline that borged them didn't have this generous of a nature, but said "wow, look at this great data-mining system!" and adopted it, not fully understanding what they were getting. A year or so after the merger, I used some miles for a free, non-upgradable ticket to meet up with my fiancée in Paris for a weekend. I got to the hub airport for the trans-Atlantic flight to Paris, the gate agent paged me, looked me up and down (yeah, t-shirt and sandals), asked if I was in fact me, looked more than a little distressed, then dragged me off to the side away from the counter and said in hushed tones, "We're not allowed to do this - but the computer says to upgrade you!"
As far as I know, this airline's computer still thinks I am a god among men, and unless they deliberately go in and tweak the algorithms, it may think that forever. I'm... okay with this. :)
Curiosity is great. My daughter was 10 months old when she got hold of her mom's phone and "checked in" on Facebook "from" a restaurant near our house. Her message of "Tvab un vcchhccbgvb. B. By yhd7(7," was a little out of the ordinary for my wife's wall, but it still drew a few likes and several comments. ;)
The suppression of free speech is a pre-fascist act. The remedy for offensive speech is more speech.
I hope somebody goes to jail for this.
Good point - and this close to New York City, surely some Occupy folks can be found to counter-protest this idiocy.
For values of "some" that outnumber the WBC by, oh, a hundred to one?
"when the grid fails" is often not a nice sunny day, you know. :)
So the "wiring" needs to include storage, i.e. batteries. Which means it's probably a good thing that the Department of Energy is starting a big project to research breakthroughs in battery technology...
If you're talking about simple, crudely aimed fireworks, perhaps. If you're talking about actual steerable rockets, Robert Goddard appears to have been driven more by interest in flight and spaceflight (and the innate curiosity of a scientist and inventor) than by the prospect of weaponizing his creations.
A real Shakespearean actor and a Star Trek captain!
*.binaries.* downloaders are a much smaller set than "Usenet users everywhere."
The build process on OS X is just different enough from Linux to be a real bugbear when I try to compile some obscure console-mode app (naim, for example), usually making osxports puke its guts out on the next-to-last of a hundred dependencies. It'd be pretty nice if I could just download binaries built for Linux and use them.